Improved railway stock-car



J. S. KENDALL.

q Stock Car.

No. 90,557. v Patented May 25, 1869.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN S. KENDALL, OF NORTHFIEL D, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, RALPH EMERSON, AND WILLIAM A. TALOOTT, OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVED RAILWAY STOCK-CAR.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 90,557, dated May 25, 1869.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN S. KENDALL, of Northfield, in the county of Rice and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Railway Stock-Cars; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawin gs and the letters and figures marked thereon, which form a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents a side elevation of my improved car; Fig. 2, a longitudinal vertical section; Fig. 3, a transverse vertical section of the same, and Fig. 4 a detached view of the water-pipes.

The nature of my invention consists in constructing a railway stock-car with a tank or reservoir, or attaching to said stock-car a tank or reservoir, for transporting with the car water that can be used for watering or sprinkling the stock in the car while in transitu, constructed and arranged substantially as hereinafter described.

It also further consists in making a double top or roof to the car, with a water-space between; also, in placing strips across said space to prevent the water from being thrown violently to one part of said space by the motion of the ear. H

To enable those skilled in the art to understand how to manufacture and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the same with particularity.

The same letters of reference refer to corresponding parts in the different figures.

In the annexed drawing, A represents any ordinary railway stock-car, made of any known shape or size. The roof of said car is made double, in such a way as to make a water-tight space, E, in the top of the car, and the crosspieces 0 serve both to bind the car together and also to divide the water-space into compartments, there being only small openings D from one compartment to another. By this arrangement the water runs freely from one compartment to another, so that it can all be drawn out at one place; but at the same time the water is kept sufficiently confined in each compartment to prevent its being dashed from one part of the car to another by the motion of the car.

So far as simply accomplishing the object of transporting water with the car, so that the stock in the car can be watered or sprinkled while being transported, the water tank orreservoir might be located in the bot-tom of the ear, and be arranged so that the weight of the stock or car would force the water from the reservoir when desired. It would, however, be more difficult to keep the water pure in that part of the ear, and by placing it in the top of the car it serves the purpose of keeping the ear cool in the summer by making a thick double roof for the heat of the sun to penetrate. The reservoir could also be located at any other part of the car, as at the end or side, and it might constitute a waterspace in the car itself, as shown in the drawings hereto attached, or it might be a tank attached to the car, so as to be transported with it, and water drawn therefrom, for the purposes above described but for the reasons already specified, as well as for other reasons, I prefer to construct a water-space in the top of the car, as shown.

E are openings into each end of the waterspace, and I locate them at the ends of the car, so that, by placing two nozzles on one hose, two tanks can be filled at the same time.

F is a valve-outlet for drawing water from the tank, and H are water-pipes, extending from said outlet to the troughs K, located in different parts of the ear. The valve F is operated from the top of the car by the crank J, being connected therewith so as to open and close the same.

Troughs K are arranged in the car at any suitable place, so as to be accessible to the stock in the car; butI deem the most convenient place for said troughs to be at the sides or ends of the car, as shown in the drawings hereto annexed; and, for the purpose of adjusting the troughs for use and removing them readily when not in use, I hinge them to the side of the car in such a way that they can be swung out into the proper position for holding water, or back into a recess in the side of the car, and fastened therein out of the way when not in use.

The recesses in the sides of the car are formed by making the standards of the car-' box in pieces, connected firmly together by the bent metallic straps or pieces L.

The troughs are swung up for use by the chains 0, which are attached to the troughs, and extend to a winding shaft or roller, P,

that is conveniently operated to wind up said chains from the outside of the car, the top of the car, where the brakemau can operate it, being the best place for said device. The trough is fastened back in the recess by-hooking a link attached to it to the hook Q.

The water-pipes H may be connected with the water-reservoir at any suitable place, and may be conducted, either inside or outside of the car, to the troughs. They are less liable to be injured and destroyed by the stock in the car when arranged outside of the car, as shown at R. v

For the purpose of sprinkling the stock in the car, I attach a sprinkler, S, either to the water-pipe or directly to the water-reservoir, the whole object being to so arrange said sprinkler that water can be taken from the water tank or reservoir and sprinkled upon the stock in the car.

The sprinkler may be arranged at the side or end, or evenacross the top of the car.

Tis a staple attached to the side of the car, to which is attached a ring and chain, U, for fastening the stock. The said staple is so constructed and attached to the car that the animal which is fastened can raise and lower its head by slipping the ring in the staple; but at the same time the staple is so constructed and attached that the animal cannot lie down in the car, nor raise its head sufficiently high to mount other animals by its side, both of which conditions are essential to the successful transportation of stock. I

also place an inclined feeding-board, V, in the side or end of the car above the trough, in a suitable position for conducting meal or other food from the outside of the car into the troughs for the stock to eat.

Having thus fully described the construction and operation of my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

1. Providing a railway stock-car with a water space or reservoir, B, substantially as described, in which water can be transported, for the purpose of watering or sprinklingstock while in transz'ta.

2. A railway stock-car, when constructed with a double top or roof, substantially as and for the purposes described.

3. Dividing a reservoir for containing water on a railway stock-car into connected coinpartments by placing divisions partly or en'- tirely across said tank, in such manner as to prevent or retard the surging of. water therein from end to end while the car is in motion, the

reservoir being located overhead, and the partitions serving as supports to the roof or as transverse braces to the car.

JNO. S. KENDALL.

Witnesses:

LEWIS L. GOBURN, J. L. OoBURN. 

